Camden to Finsbury Park walking and cycling changes

Update March 2024

We have now completed construction of a new experimental cycle lane, Cycleway 50. It will provide a safe, segregated space for cyclists between Finsbury Park and Nags Head and give more room to pedestrians.

Islington Council is currently constructing the next section of C50 along Caledonian Road, Penn Road and Hungerford Road up to York Way. To find out more please visit www.islington.gov.uk/nhcycleway

Once complete, C50 will connect into an existing cycleway already built by London Borough of Camden between York Way and Royal College Street, creating opportunity for longer, protected cycling space across London.

On this page you can find out more about the C50 scheme from Finsbury Park to Nags Head and what engagement and consultation you can expect from us. We also want to know your thoughts about our future consultation. You can contribute your ideas by adding your comments to our Ideas Board.

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Update – 26 October 2023

As part of our final phases of construction, we have temporarily suspended the left turn from Tollington Road into Holloway Road.

The suspension will be in place until 19 December while we build traffic islands and a new bus stop bypass. Local diversions, all clearly signed, will be in place for general traffic. Please see the map below:

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We are building a new experimental cycle lane, Cycleway 50. It will provide a safe, segregated space for cyclists and give more room to pedestrians.

Construction of Cycleway 50 will be carried out in two phases – the first is to build a segregated cycle lane between Finsbury Park and Nags Head.

Once this is complete, together with Islington Council, we plan to continue the route from Nags Head up to York Way, where it will connect into an existing cycleway already built by London Borough of Camden between York Way and Royal College Street, creating opportunity for longer, protected cycling space across London.

On this page you can find out more about the C50 scheme from Finsbury Park to Nags Head and what engagement and consultation you can expect from us. We also want to know your thoughts about our future consultation. You can contribute your ideas by adding your comments to our Ideas Board.

Islington Council is also asking for feedback to their consultation on the route design between Nags Head and York Way, along Caledonian Road, Penn Road and Hungerford Road. To find out more visit www.islington.gov.uk/nhcycleway.

The purpose of Cycleway 50

Walking and cycling have huge health and wellbeing benefits, and if more people walked, cycled or used public transport in London, there would be less congestion and our air would be cleaner.

There are currently no cycling facilities at Nag’s Head or links into any existing cycle routes, making it difficult for people to make longer trips by bike. By creating segregated spaces to cycle and connecting it to other cycle routes, we hope to encourage more people to give cycling a try.

We also must improve road safety. Between June 2017 and June 2020, there were a total of 210 people injured in road collisions around the Nags Head gyratory. Of these, 31 casualties were cyclists and 54 were pedestrians.

The changes we have made

As part of C50 construction over the past year, we have created a new cycle lane, lowered speed limits and made some traffic signal changes to help more people to safely walk and cycle. We have introduced the changes experimentally so that we can better understand the effects the scheme will have.

You can find out more about our plans in the ‘documents’ section of this page. The information explains in more detail:

• A pack of maps illustrating the route and the changes being made along the route
• A summary of the changes being made for cyclists, pedestrians, buses, parking and loading along the route
• The construction timeline and phases of Cycleway 50
• Some frequently asked questions about the changes being made as part of Cycleway 50

Tell us your thoughts

We are planning to begin our consultation in May 2024. We will use the consultation, along with monitoring of the scheme impacts to help us decide whether:

• it is necessary to make any changes to the scheme once it is in place, and if so, what these changes might be
• the scheme should remain in place permanently, or if it should be withdrawn at the end of the experimental period

If you have any thoughts about the scheme that you’d like to share with us before the consultation begins, or have a question, please send us an email at haveyoursay@tfl.gov.uk or use the ‘Questions’ tab below.

When the consultation begins, we’ll publish information about the changes to help local people understand our scheme so that they can tell us their thoughts. We’ll also publish a consultation questionnaire, to make it easier for people to give us their feedback. We’ll promote the launch of the consultation to local people and others, so that everyone who has an interest in the scheme can take part. We’d like to know your ideas about how we should plan our consultation. Please use our Ideas Board to let us know your thoughts.